5 Useful Things To Know Today: Oct. 11

1. The transition from beautiful to ugly weather slowly begins today with a mostly cloudy, high of 73 degrees forecast. Expect rain on Wednesday.

2. The Montgomery County Board of Education will be meeting at the Carver Educational Services Center this morning at 10 a.m. The meeting is open to the public and the agenda can be found on the BOE website.

3. Join Shady Grove Adventist Hospital for the Fourth Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month Event tonight beginning at 6 p.m.

4. In case you missed it: Budget cuts have really hurt Wootton High School's arts and humanities programs. The school is hosting a gala event Saturday night to raise money for the department.

5. On this day in history: Oct. 11 is a major day in space travel history. In 1968, The first staffed Apollo mission, Apollo 7, was launched with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn Fulton Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham aboard. Then, in 1984, space shuttle Challenger astronaut Kathryn Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in space.